Handle for stove-dampers



(No Model.)

J J. OYAAS.

HANDLE FOR STOVE DAMPERS.

No. 602,644. Patented Apr. 19,1898.

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JOHN J. OYAAS, OF EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN.

HANDLE FOR STOVE-DAMPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,644, dated April19, 1898.

Application filed March 1 3, 1 89 7.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. OYAAS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Eau Claire, in the county of Eau Claire and State ofWisconsin, have invented a new and useful Handle for Stove-Dampers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in handles for stove-dampers.

It has been found by experience that the handles of stove-dampers oftenburn off long before the stove wears out, and it is necessary in suchcases to take the stove to pieces in order to put in a new damper.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and efficientdamper-handle adapted to be readily applied to the stump or remainingportion ofthe handle-rod of a stovedamper after the original handle hasburned off without taking the stove to pieces, and thereby save thedamper.

A further object of the invention is to provide a handle which will becapable of being applied to those dampers having the handlerod lyingclose to the edge of the stove in such a position as to prevent a pieceof metal from being interposed between it and the adjacent portion ofthe stove.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in thedrawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of adamper-handle constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, the frangible portions of the socket beingbroken off. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the handle, the removableplate or section being detached. Fig. 4 is a similar view of theremovable plate or section.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

1 designates a damper-handle provided at its inner end with a sectionalsocket 2,adapted to receive the handle-rod of a stove-damper when thehandle thereof has been burned off. The body portion of the handle isprovided with a semisocket, which constitutes one half of the section orsocket 2, and a movable plate per.

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or section 3 carries the other half of the socket and is secured to thebody portion of the handle by a transverse fastening device 4,preferably consisting of a bolt and adapted to clamp the sections of thesocket on the handle-rod of a damper.

The body portion of the handle has its inner end reduced and providedwith a flat face 5, and the inner portion. of the removable plate orsection has a corresponding fiat face 6 and is provided at its inner endwith a projection or lug 7, which engages a notch 8 at the inner end ofthe reduced portion of the body of the handle. By this construction theplate or section is firmly held in position on the body portion of thehandle and is prevented from slipping laterally.

The socket of the handle has its inner face 9 corrugated longitudinallyin order to obtain a firm grip on the handle-rod of a stove-dam- Itoften happens that the handle portion of a stove-damper lies so close tothe edge of the other adjacent portion of the stove that it isimpossible for a socket to encircle it entirely, as there isinsufficient space to permit one side of the socket to be interposedbetween the rod of the damper and the stove. In order to enable thehandle to be applied to such rods, the sections of the sockets areprovided with frangible portions 10 and 11, which are connected at theirinner and side edges by thin ligaments with the adjacent portions of thesocket. The longitudinalligaments are formed by exterior creases orgrooves 12 and 13, and the side or transverse ligaments are produced byan exterior recess 14, and the frangible portions 10 and 11 are adaptedto be broken oif by a comparatively light blow. The exterior recess 14reduces the diameter of the handle and enables it to clear a stove andavoid binding.

It will be seen that the handle is simple and efficient, that it isadapted to be clamped to the handle-rods of stove-dampers after thehandles thereof have been burned off, and that it will obviate thenecessity of discarding a damper and of taking a stove to pieces.Furthermore, it will be apparent that it is adapted to be applied tothose handle-rods which lie close to the stove and that the frangibleportions of the sockets can be quickly removed.

What is claimed is- A device of the class described designed to beapplied to a stove-damper after the handle thereof has been destroyedand comprising a body portion having a semisocket with a longitudinalfrangible portion 10, and a removable section having a semisocketprovided with a longitudinal frangible portion 11 arranged contiguous tothe frangible portion 10, said body portion and removable section beingrecessed at 14 adjacent to the inner ends of the frangible portions 10and 11 to reduce the device and enable the same to clear a stove whenthe frangible portions are removed, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN J. OYAAS. Witnesses:

OLE O. AANSTAD, T. B. KEITH.

